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A shaken Dr. Martha Smith-Blackmore of the Animal Rescue League said the fate of the brindle-colored pit cops named "Puppy Doe" before she was euthanized is "unquestionably ... hands down" the worst case of animal abuse she has ever seen.

"She was a rack of beaten bones," Smith-Blackmore said.

"Her joints were pulled apart like Medieval times.

She was beaten, stabbed, burned over weeks to months and maybe her whole life.

And could not walk.

When I saw how vulnerable she was and I understood immediately the duration of her suffering, my heart collapsed."Smith-Blackmore said "Puppy Doe," who was discovered by a passer-by Aug. 31 abandoned in woods near the Whitwell Street playground in Quincy, endured having a wrist, ankle and elbow separated from their joints and a leg bone virtually broken in half from being drawn "over and over and over.